Ball Corp. history, profile and corporate video
Ball Corp. provides metal packaging for beverages, foods and household products, and aerospace and other technologies and services to commercial and governmental customers. The company operates its business through the following segments: Metal Beverage Packaging, Americas and Asia; Metal Beverage Packaging, Europe; Metal Food and Household Products Packaging, Americas; and Aerospace and Technologies. The Metal Beverage Packaging, Americas and Asia, segment consists of the metal beverage packaging, Americas, operations in the U.S., Canada and Brazil, and the metal beverage packaging, Asia, operations in the People’s Republic of China. The operations in this segment manufacture and sell metal beverage containers, and also manufacture and sell non-beverage plastic containers in the People’s Republic of China. The Metal Beverage Packaging, Europe, segment consists of operations in several countries in Europe, which manufactures and sells metal beverage containers, extruded aluminum aerosol containers and aluminum slugs. The Metal Food and Household Products Packaging, Americas, segment consists of operations in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Argentina, which manufactures and sells metal food, aerosol, paint and general line containers, as well as decorative specialty containers, extruded aluminum aerosol containers and aluminum slugs. The Aerospace and Technologies segment consists of the manufacture and sale of aerospace and other related products and the providing of services used in the defense, civil space and commercial space industries. The company was founded by Edmund Burke Ball, Frank Clayton Ball, George A. Ball, Lucius Lorenzo Ball and William Charles Ball in 1880 and is headquartered in Broomfield, CO.“
“Ball Corp. History
Five brothers founded Ball in 1880 with a $200 loan from their Uncle George. In the beginning, they made wood-jacketed tin cans for products like paint and kerosene, but soon expanded their offerings to glass- and tin-jacketed containers. In 1884, the brothers began making glass home-canning jars, the product that established Ball as a household name. The brothers—Edmund, Frank, George, Lucius and William—moved the company from Buffalo, New York, to Muncie, Indiana, in 1887 to take advantage of abundant natural gas reserves essential to making glass.
Ball grew rapidly in the ensuing decade and has been in more than 45 businesses since its founding. Ball no longer manufactures the ubiquitous canning jars, but we’ve expanded and grown into a worldwide metal packaging company that makes billions of recyclable metal containers, and a unique aerospace business that designs one-of-a-kind solutions to answer scientific and technical challenges. We manufacture on four continents and we’re based in Broomfield, Colorado. For a more detailed journey through Ball’s successes, visit our timeline.”
*Information from Forbes.com and Ball.com
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